World Music Features

Juan De Marcos and the AfroCuban All StarsCuban composer/arranger/ multi-instrumentalist Juan de Marcos Gonzalez is one of Cuba’s national treasures who helped re-introduce son, that bedrock style of Cuban popular music, to a whole new generation.By Rik van Boeckel

Milton NascimentoThere’s music everywhere in Brazil, and over the last 40 years a lot of it has been made by Milton Nascimento. The singer-songwriter is a superstar in his homeland, one of the long-time mainstays of popular Brazilian music.

Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar was afforded the opportunity to learn from a true master, sharing blood and time with a legend. However you look at the statistics, what matters most is the focus and soul she puts into her muse.By Derek Beres

GhorwaneIf any band is the personification of tenacity, it has to be Ghorwane, the dance band from Mozambique.By Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs

KhaledAlgeria’s greatest pop singer, Khaled, settles down with a cigarette in the garden of the Beverly Hills Hilton. He’s just finished up the final work on the U.S. release of his new album, Ya Rayi (Wrasse).By Banning Eyre